Over 200 photos, documents and the 'Diary Of Flying Operations' for HMS Battler 1942 - 1946.

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Photos from Caddie Noakes and request for information on squadron 833?

Caddie Noakes' grandfather served on HMS Battler (21st sep 1943 - 4th Aug 1944) and Caddie has emailed me with some photos. Caddie also wondered if anyone give more information on what happened to Squadron 833? If you have any information please either post it here or email it to me and I will forward it on.

Caddie's grandfather told a story about going up in a plane with a flight engineer and a camera. Whilst he was up the ship was sunk and they had to fly to land. The planes occupants were the only survivors. Does anyone have any more information on this?

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My grandfather served on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Battler in the Second World War. He was on HMS Battler for the duration of her Second World War service between 1942-1945 - notably around the Battle of Salerno, Italy.
He was responsible for HMS Battler Flying Operations and I will write up his HMS Battler notes, letters and diaries on this blog. I will also post the amazing collection of HMS Battler photos that he took and developed on these voyages - trips that covered a large part of the globe. (Though everything is dated +60 years as Blogger will not allow posts to be backdated to the 1940's!)
I hope you enjoy this, please feel free to leave comments on HMS Battler stories of interest. It would also be good to hear accounts from other people who were on HMS Battler or related to those who were.